AT&T phone work turns up skeleton

Tree trimmers in Oakland Park, Fla., made a strange and horrible discovery when cutting branches so that AT&T crews could service phone lines. That discovery, according to a report in the South Florida Sun Sentinel, was a human skeleton.

Homeowner Glenn Parker spotted the partiallty mummified body in a tree on his property. Police are investigating whether the remains belong to Parker’s roommate, who disappeared a year ago, he told the Sun-Sentinel.

The Sun-Sentinel reporter, of course, noted that it was odd for a body to be exposed to South Florida heat that long without giving off any kind of olfactory clues.